Tennessee · Nonprofit
FOR THE LOVE OF READING
FOR THE LOVE OF READING (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,000 to it, the largest being BILL AND CRISSY HASLAM FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $70k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $33k
What For the Love of Reading does
Mission
For the Love of Reading is a Knoxville-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the joy of reading through the expansion of book access and engagement points including in-school book giveaways and volunteer classroom readers
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Book Access We served over 3300 students giving away more than 7000 books
$44,274 spent96% of program spendingVolunteer Readers Our volunteers logged over 1500 hours reading to children in classrooms
$1,234 spent3% of program spendingLiteracy Enriched Spaces We began to explore partnerships to get childrens books into more locations
$554 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,062.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $5k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FOR THE LOVE OF READING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FOR THE LOVE OF READING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of FOR THE LOVE OF READING's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FOR THE LOVE OF READING runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FOR THE LOVE OF READING
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOR THE LOVE OF READING: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOR THE LOVE OF READING?
- FOR THE LOVE OF READING (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,000 to it, the largest being BILL AND CRISSY HASLAM FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOR THE LOVE OF READING have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $51,000 in grants to FOR THE LOVE OF READING.
- Who is the largest funder of FOR THE LOVE OF READING?
- BILL AND CRISSY HASLAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOR THE LOVE OF READING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing